Media Party Africa is hosted by the continent’s largest data journalism and civic technology federation, Code for Africa, in partnership with Hacks/Hackers Africa. Together, we’re gathering some of the world’s most exciting civic technologists, digital journalists and other social justice watchdogs from across the world for three days of workshops and talks.
We have speakers confirmed from Vox, ProPublica, ESPN, Buzzfeed Labs, Quartz, Huffington Post, Zeit Investigativ, Google, Jigsaw, First Draft News, the Gates Foundation, the Mozilla OpenNews Fellowships, and many more, talking everything from drone and sensor journalism, to how they’re pioneering 360˚and VR journalism, investigative technologies, geojournalism, verification, chat apps and the rise of the bots.
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Data journalism projects are usually developed by multi-disciplinary teams. Journalists, designers and developers work together and build data-driven stories. But to engage larger communities and have impact, data journalism projects can be run collaboratively by multiple newsrooms and distributed teams. This session will showcase some cross-European data journalism projects – such as The Migrants' Files and Generation E – explain their methodologies and show how this could be applied to run pan-African data journalism projects.
